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'Skip baths, ignore them, eat off one plate': Constance Hall's parenting hacks

The mother-of-six has some recommendations for mums.
  • 06 Nov 2019

Mummy blogger Constance Hall has made some honest admissions about how she "cuts corners" when juggling six children in order to stay sane.

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The self-described "slummy mummy", told Mamamia that she recommends skipping baths, getting flatmates so they can babysit and ignoring children's "white noise".

Constance and husband Denim

When it comes to her parenting hacks, she explained: "You have the choice to judge yourself on floral smelling fabric softener, home baked cakes and spotless floors, or chill the f**k out, laugh a bit louder, turn the music up and love them all that bit harder."

Here are just some of recommendations:

Flatmates

Constance claims that her children share rooms so she can let their spare room to the likes of female cousins, her stepdad and she currently has a "lovely Māori friend" living with her.

She explained: "My kids get to learn all about other people, form connections, learn stories and I get a break. Most of the time my kids don’t even need to be ‘looked after’ – they have their own sh*t to do – I just need someone here to keep them safe if I duck out, and to keep me sane when my partner isn’t around."

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Last year I decided when I went to Africa that I'd remove all of our minimum skirts from the shop and instead fill three suitcases full of them and give them to the most beautiful and deserving young girls who had been throw the hell and torture that no child should even hear about let alone experience. We had the best day handing them out, the girls felt like Queens, sang us songs and danced around looking beautiful. It wasn't until we moved out of our warehouse a couple of weeks ago that I was told we still had some left over that we didn't know about!! So I've decided to drastically reduce the prices of these #vintageQueen kids skirts and sell them all to any of you beautiful Queens that want a little comfy boho skirt for a tiny goddess in your life. If they are like my kids they will live in them!! And even with the huge price reduction $1 of your money will still go to our babies in Kenya at Rafiki Mwema so this Massive sale will keep on giving 💖💖 Love ya!!!!! Ps home now so back on insta 💖💖 PPS the model on the website is my niece and she's the funniest little dream boat on earth. Link in bio 💜💜 Con xx
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365 days around the sun. Raja turned one today. I had no idea what to expect when I found out I was pregnant again. I'm an experienced enough mother to be scared of the year ahead. Another baby, a new man, Another little creature, another little teacher, to blur all of my days into one. Babies come into this world, they see their parents for the first time and they break them. They break them down to nothing and rebuild them as the people they need you to be. You'll experience exhaustion that you never thought possible, with no end in sight that. Counting down the until the days of day napping return in 20 years. Your relationship will be tested, you will resent him for sleeping so much you'll reject his offers for sex, he'll resent your rejection so much he'll shut down emotionally, leaving you feeling lonely and unloved and him feeling...... Lonely and unloved... But neither of you are ever alone. Your body will never be the same, it will change after one, after 2, after 5, how the fuck does this body keep mutating? But somehow your partner will love it more, your baby will see perfection in the hanging belly he used to call home and every now and then you will catch a glimpse of that body in the mirror and realise there is something very sexy about changing. Something very sexy about being a baby mamma. With milk dripping from your nipples and extra weight left over on your bum. And when you finally get a babysitter and break free for some alone time, you'll be messaging asking for a photo before you even leave the drive way. It's a love you can't explain, the first year of every single baby. He broke me, I've cried the tears I needed to cry to be rebuilt into the woman he needed me to be. I see the light. And I feel stronger, more powerful. Ready to be your mum. Welcome to our tribe. It's like you've been here all along. We did good Denz. 👊🏽 Mum. 💖 @willow.and.wilde for the amazing pic 💖

Food

Among the great advice of not letting mealtimes turn into "tense environments", Constance also says that she encourages the children to eat off the same plate.

She said: "Dishes are the worst part of dinner. In other cultures, everyone eats with their hands off the same plate. I often put a huge pile of vegetables along with another plate of sliced meat or whatever you’re making. It’s like with dogs: give a dog some dog food and he turns his nose up at it. Introduce another dog and he will race back to competitively eat. It doesn’t always work but there are less dishes."

White noise and checking out

She said: "I have become so good at blocking out the sound of my kids that once someone had to walk the whole three metres towards me to let me know that my son was crying – screaming in fact. I felt terrible, but that’s the level I had to graduate to in order to stay sane."

In order to help with her sanity levels, Constance checks out at around 7.30pm. 

"Anything you need that’s not an emergency after that is up to you to do. I’m not your mum; I’m not here. I’m not your slave, I’m just a statue of a woman who, an hour ago, wiped your bum and is now drinking wine chatting on the phone to her sister."

Bathing

She said when it comes to washing kids, every day isn't necessary and it "won't kill them". She's not wrong.

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